The Resistant Object of Architecture

"""This book is an excellent example of a systematic and inventive elaboration of those fundamental concepts that are the internal conditions of architectural theory and practice. The work draws on the theoretical framework of the Ljubljana Lacanian school, which certainly well serves to support its elaboration of the architectural concepts developed herein."" Rado Riha, philosopher, Head of the Institute of Philosophy, the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ""This thesis predicated on radical French thought posits a theoretical basis for the cultivation of an autonomous architecture capable of transcending the total commodification of the environment under the aegis of Neoliberal capitalism."" Kenneth Frampton, the Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP ""The author develops a penetrating analysis of today’s architectural reality and points out architecture’s dramatic loss of autonomy and the blind surrender to the logic of market economy. She also exposes the often naively idealized self-understanding of the architectural world. Analyzing the understanding of reality in the discipline, Čeferin makes it evident, that today’s trivialization of architecture as a critical and transformative practice, calls for a rigorous understanding of its societal and cultural reality."" Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor emeritus, writer, Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008-2014 ""This book addresses the pressing concern of architecture’s role in globalized capitalism by providing a courageous alternative to yet another gloomy account of architecture’s impossibility to act. It points to a way out of the cul-de-sac of post-criticality by formulating a theory of architecture’s inherent transformative potential and its capacity to ""punch a hole"" in the world of consumer capitalism."" Rixt Hoekstra, lecturer creative technology, University of Twente"